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: updated 23rd december 02005 :

Any
Questions is once agin visiting Oxfordshire, and famous celebrity resident
of that parish Brian Eno is once again on the team. The live show hits the airwaves
on Friday 23rd December 2005, BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 GMT. It will be streamed
at the time and also available on the BBC site for a week afterwards (maybe
longer as there's no programme the following week). There's usually a transcript
posted a bit later on too. (Thanks to Dominic Norman-Taylor)

Brian lurks
elsewhere on the BBC site, but only until 25th December. Kevin Dunnill points
out: "Brian Eno in conversation with Chris Coco - everything from
producing people like U2 and Bowie to making music that is 10 years in duration
to the role of DJs."

Apparently
some pre-release info for the 2006 Coachella Festival claims that Brian is going
to be on the line-up with Roxy Music. This is incorrect and Brian will not be
rejoining Roxy. Just thought we should make that clear.

Matthias
Muth writes:

On Nov. 16, while staying
in Beijing, we - my Chinese wife and myself - took the chance to visit Brian's
installation in Ritan Park (Sound and the City).

At the entrance of
Ritan Park we got a flyer about the installation (in Chinese).
After entering Ritan Park, we asked some locals (mostly older people), where
the installation would be, but nobody seemed to know anything. Shortly after,
a young Chinese came around and said, in the temple ground there would be
some ominous black boxes, which would make peculiar sounds, maybe we're
looking for that.

After entering the
temple ground we found about 15 black boxes, which were positioned around
the outer circle of the ground, each carrying different layers of sound.
Two young Chinese men sat beneath one of the black boxes, it seemed to us,
that they were guarding the installation. Another younger Chinese man was
busy walking constantly from one box to another (i.e. was walking around
the outer circle of the temple ground continously). Some older locals stayed
inside the temple ground, talking and laughing, two were even flying kites
in the ground, obviously taking no notice of the sounds. Local Chinese women
with children came, listened surprised for a minute or two, then went by.
It was very interesting to observe the behaviour of the locals.

We stayed for half
an hour, walking around the temple ground and took the whole scenery in.
For me the sounds and the location went perfectly together to evoke a very
special strange atmosphere, which is hard to describe in words.

Crazy glam
rock star Brian Eno believes the world should be saved! Whatever will he think
of next?

Prior to
the gig at the Astoria gig, Brian wrote an article for The Independent
about the event and why he was playing live. He also mentions that his collaboration
with Herbie Hancock won't see the light of day.

Thought I'd let you know about
last night's concert at the Astoria in London Sunday 27 November 2005.

It started not with a bang but
with a whimper in the shape of Imogen Heap, then a spokesman from the Stop
The War Coalition came on and gave us a good hector about the war in Iraq,
don't get me wrong I am in agreement, I just wish someone would mention
that life in Iraq under Saddam wasn't all that wonderful actually, just
ask the Kurds how good it was. At least there's one less cruel tyrant in
power and don't forget Saddam's two 'Unpleasant' son's what would the Iraqi's
have had to suffer when those two assumed control?

Then our Brian spoke, quite
sensibly I thought "not as a politician, but as a humanitarian"
as he said of himself.

"You should be a politician!"
someone shouted from the crowd, "No thanks" quipped Brian "I
might have to spend time with Geoff Hoon!"

A very very short set from Nitin
Sawhney and then onto the main event The Rachid Taha Band.

The crowd loved it, I defy anyone
to keep their feet still when they listen to Rachid Taha's blend of world
music meets rock 'n' roll.

Brian who'd started off the
evening wearing that strange black jacket of his, the one that looks like
a Beatle jacket that, you remember Beatle jackets don't you, they didn't
have collars, the sort of thing Chairman Mao would've worn, you know the
one I mean. Well before long not only did he remove the jacket but he even
untucked his white shirt from his trousers, it was great to see the domed
one singing backing vocals, playing occasional keyboards, and it had to
be said dancing, yes Brian Eno was dancing! he was grinning from ear to
ear and obviously enjoying himself immensely, who knows, perhaps it was
playing with a band again.

I think the track the crowd
seemed to like the best was when the Rachid Taha Band, with Brian on Keyboards
and Mick Jones on Guitar did a cracking version of "Rock the Casbah".

Richard Mills:

It was great (if tickets
were a little undersold)! Brian played with BOTH Rachid Taha AND Nitin Sawhney
line-ups (so I think we can kiss goodbye to the lie that he does not enjoy
playing live with bands) AND gave a humanitarian speech.

Nitin Sawhney played
three pieces with Brian, Leo Abrahams and [indistinct] Robinson. Nitin introduced
them all and said he had met them all for the first time the day before.
The set was quite incomparable considering the few hours they had known
each other.

Rachid Taha's set was
just short of two hours with Brian looking magisterial at the back (next
to a re-appearing Leo Abrahams) with a keyboard plus other toys, singing
backing vocals and either playing a theremin we couldn't see or...he really
was cutting a rug with some smooth dance moves. He was truly in his element.
A bit like watching your dad do the disco at your birthday party, but he's
one of the coolest dads around. Not so cool but just as welcome was Mick
Jones of the Clash and BAD who joined on guitar for the last 30 minutes
and co-lead vocals on Rock The Cazbah.

Brian claimed that
the war effort in Iraq has so far cost $200 bn, a sum which could have ensured
clean water for every citizen on the planet or could have been spent on
retro-viral vaccines for all known HIV patients (see UN and WHO sites for
corroboration). Instead it's been spent shoring up the invasion and destruction
of a country that did not have the weapons of mass destruction Bush and
Blair claimed.

He also thanked the
first of the three acts, Imogen Heap, who opened the set with a solo set.
Brian said he feels Imogen is "close to being a genius". High
praise indeed.

Rory Walsh:

Eno seemed really comfortable
on stage and appeared to enjoy being part of the Rachid Taha band. There
is a review from the Independent. However it misses out Nitin Sawhney's
set with Eno, Crispen Robinson and Leo Abrahams. Sawhney started by saying
something about his feelings on the war and said that he had only met the
other three the previous day. Eno, he told the crowd had devised the set,
which had Sawhney on keyboard first then guitar, Eno treating Leo Abraham's
guitar and Crispin Robertson on percussions. Sawhney seemed uncomfortable
with playing it but there is no doubt he is a fine musician.

The gig was filmed by
a large film crew - but it may not see the light of day when Eno sees himself
doing the "middle-aged dad dance" on stage !!

I spoke the someone from
the Stop the War Coalition who was taking pictures and he said that they
wanted to get the pictures onto their website as soon as possible.

Eno's talk at the start
of the concert was quite emotional. He made it clear that his objection
was not political but humanitarian grounds. Someone shouted from the crowd
"you should go into politics" adding that he had made short work
of Geoff Hoon and Andrew Marr. "No" came Eno's reply adding that
it was easy to make a fool of Hoon. "I have enjoyed a reasonably happy
life up until now... I would hate to have to face Hoon every day,"
Eno mused which pleased the crowd except the girl behind me who said, "Thanks
a lot Dad, just reasonably happy!" Kids -- can't please them.

Andrew
Nicholas writes: The December 2005 issue of Mix magazine includes
a Paul Tingen interview with Mr. Eno himself, complete with a front cover picture
insert. Topics for discussion include early influences; recording techniques
and procedures for Another Day On Earth, including vocal treatments; and the
current state of recording music with the use of computers, as opposed to working
within the analog domain. [EnoWeb quibbles: We're not sure Brian actually
worked with Toto. Just had a track on an album that was mostly made
up of their music, after all.]

Bill
Janowski e-mails: Another article for the EnoWeb site - Roxy Music To Release
New Album. [EnoWeb adds: Although Brian's name is mentioned,
any involvement is just speculation... and although he is quoted as having been
"highly critical" of the Roxy reunion his actual view expressed to
Q Magazine at the time was was "It's fine by me. I wouldn't want
to do it myself." We seem to recall Rolling Stone carried other
comments which were denied by Brian at the time.]

Finn
says: There was a book-signing for David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace's
The New Book of Lists here in LA on 1st December. The articles about
it mentioned that Eno wrote a list for them. I'm curious to see what he chose
to enumerate.

Brian's
old mate André Heller has roped him & Peter Gabriel in to provide
music for the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 World Cup. Along with visitor Kevin
Dunnill, EnoWeb confidently predicts a live performance of Neroli in
its entirety -- that should get them rocking in the stadium. [Thanks
to Brian Parkin, Kevin Dunnill, Bill Janowski, Rory Walsh & Martin David
Redfern]. UPDATE:Tim Church says
the two-hour show will take place on 07 June 2006 at Berlin's Olympiastadion.

Brian appeared
on the BBC1 programme Sunday AM on 20th November to talk about the
situation in Iraq, discuss his 27th Nov concert, and get up close and personal
with Bonnie Greer off-camera. You can see a stream of the broadcast on the BBC's
site. (Thanks to Kevin Eden and Richard Mills)

Rory
Walsh e-mails: Did you see Paul Morley's piece about the use of Eno's 1/1
in the Orange ad? Agitated bloggers whoever could he mean !! EnoWeb adds:
dunno; we just wish Brian would get around to releasing the music he did for
the BMW commercials in the mid-1980s.

Dara Connell
says: I was only introduced to Before And After Science last week and
have not been able to switch it off. After a few add keyword searches I found
a site relevant to "Kurt's Rejoinder". Not sure if it will help to
translate the German, or maybe it might be an interesting film to watch.

Kevin Dunnill
writes: Brian was on BBC Radio 1 on Monday 7th November. The site says: "This
week on One World we take you to The Edge of Reason as your One World posse
delve into the world of experimental music."

One
World -- available until Monday 14th Nov; Brian is on shortly after
the 56 minute mark, then there's a bit of experimental stuff, then a few
more words from Brian and a cover of "Baby's On Fire" by Marc
Riley & The Creepers

Brian performs
live! Yup, Brian is going on stage and playing live with Rachid Taha at a one-off
benefit concert in aid of the Stop The War Coalition. Date is Sunday 27 November,
venue is The Astoria, London (on Charing Cross Road, nearest Tube station Tottenham
Court Road), doors open at 7pm and tickets are available at £20 each from
See Tickets (phone 0870 0603 777, 24 hours), Mean Fiddler and STARGREEN. There
is no booking fee for cash purchases from Astoria and Jazz Cafe box offices.
Here's some more information...

Rachid Taha is a new phenomenon in Arabic
music. With his band, he brilliantly marries the driving rhythms and elaborate
melodies of contemporary Arabic popular music with the forceful sound of post-punk
guitar rock, creating what The Times described as 'a dirty, raucous,
greasy rock n' roll'. The raw sweat of his music and a well-known stance against
racism and hypocrisy have earned him a high standing throughout Europe and
the Middle East.

Brian Eno, opponent of the invasion of Iraq
and long-time supporter of Stop the War Coalition, is making a guest appearance
with Rachid Taha. He worked with Rachid on his album Tékitoi
and has performed with him in Paris, St Petersburg and Moscow. In an interview
for the South Bank show, he said: "Rachid's music is intrinsically political
and topical, and very much the music of the Arab Street. I think he himself
is a person who feels his role is to make both a cultural and political statement:
he doesn't separate the two things."

Nitin Sawhney is a world-class producer,
songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, composer and cultural pioneer, creatively
active in the worlds of music, dance, theatre and film. Nitin has scored over
25 films and Clubland saw his return in 2004 with the release of All Mixed
Up and Fabric Live. He has sold out the Royal Festival Hall,
the Royal Albert Hall, and with a major DJ performance, the Lincoln Center
in New York.

Imogen Heap has been growing on the radar
of indie, rock, pop and electronica fans alike. It may have something to do
with her immaculate production, but it most likely rests in the pale, haunting
pallor of her voice. The 2005 release of Speak For Yourself sees
Heap burgeoning with flavour and inspiration. What brings Imogen Heap her
well-deserved acclaim is an uncompromising style and a unique understanding
of sound.

It's taken
a while for Brian to brush the cobwebs off his DX-7 but the auction description
is now up. You can see a picture too.

Vemia/Sphere
(click on the pic of the gavel, click on "auction rooms", click
on "filter", type 4621 in the From box and click
"Submit". The DX-7 will be the top item in the table you see).

Keep reading
down the list, because there are several other Eno items on auction, one of
which drew the following apoplectic response from sometime EnoWeb correspondent
feline1:

/splutters/! The Swine! the Cad! The sneaky wee bism!

What, Dear EnoWeb, has gotten Feline1 so flabberghasted??

Well, we all know (YAWWWWWWWWN), that yes, just like he did
with his trusty VCS3 several years ago, Brian Eno is now selling his Yamaha
DX7 at this Nov's http://www.vemia.co.uk auction.

However, rather more revealing is lot number 4626 for it
is Brian Eno's Jellinghaus DX Programmer. "His what?!" you may ask.
Well it is a big blue box, nearly as big as the DX7
itself, with nearly 200 knobs on it, one for every parameter inside the DX7.

Suddenly it becomes apparent how Eno managed to become such
an expert at programming the notoriously obtuse DX7!! (An experience famously
described as "like trying to wallpaper your house through the letterbox")

For using one of these rare programmer boxes (less than 50
ever made), DX7-programming becomes a doddle! A joy! As tactile an experience
as any lovely old analogue synth.

Flippin' eck, he kept THAT a bit quiet, though!!!!!! All
those dozens of interviews I've read of his affinity for the DX7, of the amazing
sounds he could coax from it in mere minutes...

Quite content, was Eno, to let us think he'd mastered the
DX7 through baldness and genius alone. But no. The
crafty begger had a DX Programmer all along.

/speechless/

Magdalena
Daly writes: We are delighted to announce that EP1 in the Neither Speak
Nor Remain Silent series, Bloom by Fovea Hex [which includes contributions
from Brian] is now available by mail order from Die Stadt Records in Germany.
This is a limited edition release, and comes packaged in a very attractive embossed
sleeve. Customers will be able to purchase Bloom from Road Records
in Fade Street, Dublin. There is an even more limited edition of Bloom
(300 copies) by mail order only from Die Stadt, which includes a bonus cd, The
Explanation, featuring material from Bloom remixed by Andrew Mckenzie
of the Hafler Trio.

An extract from the EP1 track "Don't These Windows Open", which features
Brian's voice more prominently than in the mix on the ep, is on the Janet Records
website. He also
played fretless bass, and helped to create the vocal loops. By the way, the
forthcoming EPs 2 and 3 also feature Brian, particularly the title track of
EP2, "Huge", with three very beautiful keyboard tracks.

Brian contributed
to the Panorama discussion Troops Out? on Sunday 30 October, BBC1 at
22:15 (repeated early morning at 00.25 on Friday 4 November with sign language).
This is what he said:

"Both sides of this argument are arguing on the assumption that the intention
was to occupy Iraq for a while and then leave, but I've always questioned that
idea. I think that the Americans, certainly, were planning a long-term or even
permanent occupation of Iraq, and that this is the first encampment of a Western
force in the Middle East -- and it's intended to stay there for a long time.
This would explain why they're building four very large bases there in Iraq
at the moment ... I think we should get out tomorrow."

Richard
Mills e-mails: Brian's sound installation is currently running at Ritan Park,
Beijing, China, as part of the British Council's "Sound And The City"
project. It's on from 21 October – 20 November and the times are 14:00-20:00
each day. On 17 October Brian also gave a lecture at the Lai Jin Yu Xuan Tea
House in Zhongshan Park.

Brian's
ambient videos, Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan and Thursday
Afternoon, are coming to DVD for the first time (unless you count the dodgy
ones being sold on eBay). Fourteen Video Paintings will be released
shortly as a Region 1 NTSC DVD in the USA and a little later on as a Region
2 PAL DVD in the UK. The DVD will include the films in both portrait and landscape
formats so you won't have to turn your television on its side to watch them
unless you actually want to. In place of a spoken Director's Commentary with
Brian reminiscing about the crazy antics on-set and his serious falling-out
with the cameraman, there is a booklet with extensive extracts from Brian's
interviews and lectures on his videos. (Thanks to Jim Rainwater and Joel
S. Bachar).

Jonathan
writes: I saw the news piece on the myspace group for eno. However, there
is one that’s been around a lot longer and is a lot more active with a
lot more members haha. I don’t know why the other one got chosen, but
this is where its at haha. [Which is all very well, but why does he sound like
Terry Pratchett's character Carcer from Night Watch?]

"Brian
selling his studio? What the heck's going on?" cried many Eno fans. Brian
held his ear-trumpet in a quivering hand and looked at them doubtfully. "What's
that you say, you young whippersnappers: 'DX going on'? Brilliant idea!"
he said. "Run along now, Grandpa's tired." And so it happened that
Brian's (t)rusty Yamaha DX-7, star of Apollo and many other albums,
does indeed go on auction through VEMIA from 5 to 12 November 2005. Brian is
leaving it full of his own sounds, he'll add a cartridge containing more of
his sounds and it will have proper written provenance [possibly the message
ENO WOZ ERE scratched on the side or something?]. (Thanks to VEMIA's Peter
Forrest).

Mij
Munyum says: Finally there is a CD re-issue of the Brian Eno produced NO
NEW YORK collection. Yeah, I know, it's also out there as a high priced
Japanese import, but on November 15th it's going to be made more available.
(I see Amazon is now taking pre-orders for it). The package is a trifold digipack
(paper case) complete with lyric sheet. For those unfamiliar with this 1978
release, it's a collection of 4 New York based "Punk" bands. ( Contortions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA )... Each band has 4 tracks. The release
is probably responsible for the term "No Wave" as it's sometimes called.
what you might describe as artfully done punk? Art for Art's sake! The wait
is over !

Steven
Prindiville-Kirby writes: Eno was one of the contributors to Radio 1's
Keeping It Peel broadcasts to mark the first anniversary of John Peel's death.
He commented briefly over "The Big Ship": "When I first started
making music, it was John Peel's shows that inspired me. And then when I did
make music, it was John Peel who played it first on the radio. So I have to
thank him for my career. I also have to thank him for playing a whole album
of mine backwards on the air once... it was pretty abstract music, but all the
same, John, I can't understand how anybody could make that kind of
mistake! Anyway it's all forgiven now and we still love you and we still miss
you."

An extract
from Music For Airports is currently being used in an advertisement
for Orange, in which a couple dance through a house that must require a lot
of dusting. Thanks to Alan Knight, James Beard and David Brighton.

Phil Manzanera's
new album 50 Minutes Later, which includes appearances by Brian and
variant spellings of Kaoss in the booklet, is now available.

NTDWE:
Ard van der Horst writes: Not really Eno-related perhaps but I immediately
thought of him and his music-software (SSEYO’s Koan) that he loves so
much. Seems this is the same thing but different; kind of.

Brian contributed
to Soup Songs: The Robert Wyatt Story on BBC Radio 2 on 24th September.
He was also one of the subjects covered on The Blagger's Guide earlier
in the day on the same channel. Both programmes should be available until 1st
October for streaming. (Thanks to Rory Walsh and Phil Leader).

Soup
Songs presented by Phil Manzanera (Brian also offers a soundbite
in the news bulletin preceding the broadcast)

The
Blagger's Guide (Brian feature starts at the 14:55 mark, but worth
hearing in its entirety)

Brian was
one of the speakers at a demonstration by the Stop The War Coalition on 24th
September. Rupert Loydell says there was an interview with Brian on
the television news and Pavi points out that if you scroll down to
"In Pictures" on the linked page and click on image 11 you can see
a pic of Brian.

Mark
Harrop writes: There is an interview with Eno about the making of Another
Day On Earth in the Oct 05 issue of Sound on Sound by Paul Tingen.
EnoWeb adds: as with the article in Le Monde, Brian is said to be selling
his studio and moving to computer composition: "I'm fed up with having
a studio. I want to get rid of everything. It gives me the wrong idea about
what my job is. I don't want to get up in the morning any more thinking 'Oh,
I'd better do some music today,' because all this equipment is sitting around
looking at me and expecting me to use it. I'd like to get up and think 'What
shall I do today?' And this could be music, but also something else." Paul
Tingen also has an interview with Brian in the September issue of the German
magazine Keyboards (thanks to Bommel) and there is some crossover --
as Brian reveals: "Ich bin es leid, ein Studio zu haben. Ich möchte
alles loswerden..." [etc, usw, you get the picture.]

Michael
Flaherty writes: Robert Fripp's diary at DGM mentioned attending a "Garden
Party" at Eno's home on 3 September. (This has scrolled off now).

Renzo
says: Brian collaborates on the DVD+CD Quadri+Cromie by Hector
Zazou - the album will be out in October (I had the info from Materiali Sonori).
There is a magazine called Experience (see the link) with a DVD related
to Quadri+Cromie with an unreleased track by Brian and Hector called
"Ellipses". The DVD is produced by Pier Luigi Andreoni and guests
David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin.

Brian is
one of the artists exhibiting at the Lyon Biennale, which runs from 14 September
to 31 December 2005, closed Mondays and Christmas Day, in Lyon, France.
He has created a new sound and light sculpture for the 3rd floor of the Lyon
Contemporary Art Museum. Dunno anything else about it yet.

A message
from David Honigmann tells us: The September issue of Prospect
magazine includes a 73-minute CD of The Fahrenheit Twins, a story written
and read by Michel Faber with a soundtrack by Brian Eno.

This sent EnoWeb off on a ramble around the Net. Although we found Prospect
with the CD in a few newsagents, we couldn't find any reference to the CD on
Prospect's site. For those unable to get hold of the magazine, The
Scotsman reckons that the CD will also be included with a new edition of
Brian's Diary in January; there is some information about that on the publisher
Canongate's site, and at Amazon -- neither of them refers to a CD though.

Prospect
(if you're planning to order a subscription, it seems the CD might not have
been sent out automatically with the magazine and subscribers have to ring
up to claim their CD)

Canongate(new publishers of A Year with added introduction and handwriten
notes)

Amazon.co.uk
(page for A Year -- looks as though they disagree with Canongate
about the price)

Paolo
Lanzoni says: There was an interview with Brian in the Italian women's
magazine Donna (out Saturday 3rd February). He dicussed his collaboration
on next Paul Simon album and says Paul Simon recently recorded some vocals for
a Herbie Hancock song. Hancock was impressed by the sound of some demos that
Paul brought from sessions for the album and said "Who did this? I want
him to play on my own recordings". This could be the way a new collaboration
on H.H. stuff is born!

Also, I've just been looking at the Talking Heads' fan web site and I found
some informations about remastered versions of Eno driven Talking Heads albums:
Rhino Records is said to have confirmed the upcoming reissue of 8 remastered
Talking Heads masterpieces (beginning of October). They all will be released
in DualDisc format (cd + dvd 5.1 surround remix). The Talking Heads have expanded
their eight studio albums with previously unreleased content for their release
as DualDiscs: it's likely to have Eno giving some contribution or co-writing
in Remain in Light or Fear of Music bonus material...

Karl Hyde
from Underworld sat in for Rob Da Bank on BBC Radio 1 on Thursday 8th September.
Included in his set was an as yet unreleased track by Brian called "These
Small Noises" with vocals by Fovea Hex's Clodagh Simonds and Brian (ELO-type
vocoder & Drawn From Life-type vocal jiggery-pokery) plus keyboards
by Jon Hopkins. Thanks to Magdalena Daly.

Radio
1(Stream available until 15th Sept; song appears at roughly
the 1:21:30 stage)

Goran
Vejvoda writes: The French daily Le Monde dated 15 08 2005 has
an interview with Brian by Stéphane Davet.

Quoth
Rory Walsh: Tom Phillips' web site is running the following story: "As
Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford 2005-6, Tom Phillips will give a series
of lectures commencing 18th January 2006 at the University/Pitt Rivers Museum,
Oxford. Admission is free. The fourth lecture of the series takes the form of
an exhibition, Tom Phillips: A Microretrospective, at the Ashmolean
Museum which is open to the public from Thursday 9th February 2006. The eighth
and final event of the Slade Lecture Series is a concert at the historic Holywell
Music Rooms on 8th March 2006. This concert features a number of world premieres
based on texts by Tom Phillips by composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Michael
Nyman, Julian Anderson, Tarik O'Regan, John Woolrich, Robert Saxton, Howard
Skempton, Joby Talbot, Brian Eno, Robin Holloway and Gerard McBurney."
Will he appear, who knows.

Tiherlily
informs us: Here you can find a bunch of articles about Brian Eno &
Rachid Taha concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow May 24-25, 2005. If you can't
read Russian you may look at the pictures taken by Russian photographers.

Brett
says: Happy news -- Music for Films III (Rykodisc) popped up in
the iTunes Music Store (U.S.). EnoWeb adds: it's in the UK store as well. This
is the US version of the album, with the bonus track "Shark 12" rather
than the European version's "Shark 15" (low-res audio sample of that
at HMV if you want to make a comparison). Both have the same Roger Eno bonus
track "Slower and Slower" as well.

Stephen
Iliffe types: For your information, the Cluster & Eno album
(1977) has just been re-released on the Water label. Later this year, the same
label will also make available the Eno, Moebius and Roedelius follow up called
After the Heat (1979). Both albums will feature fresh extended sleeve
notes plus archive photos.

It is worth
taking a look at the new interviews Radiocitizen has added to his More Dark
Than Shark site recently (see link below). Brian lists some of the projects
in the pipeline: installations in Lyon, Munich, St Petersburg and China, writing
a new book on culture and working on an orchestral version of The Shutov
Assembly (at last!).

Radiocitizen
writes: In case you didn’t know, Paul Simon’s forthcoming collaboration
with Brian Eno is tentatively titled Musical Palette. Furthermore,
Eno is working on the music for the opening ceremony of the next soccer World
Cup, Germany 2006... All this and more is in an interview Eno gave in Italy
in June, 2005. You can find my English translation of the original Italian article
at my site ... Go to the *UPDATES* section of the site and then click on the
link for August 26. I have also transcribed the Eno articles from Word
magazine’s August 2005 issue.

Rory
Walsh reads: This month's Record Collector includes a Q&A
with Eno and news on the forthcoming MLITBOG which is due out the same
day as The Pearl and apparently includes seven bonus cuts. The mag
also says Phil Manzanera's album 50 Minutes Later is out in October
and features a track "Enotonik Bible Black (Mainstream Version)" with
Brian, Andy MacKay and Robert Wyatt.

EnoWeb
founder Mal Humes says: Jon Hassell's new web site is now up. He includes
notes from diaries from years gone past intermingled with reflections on the
context of those notes then and now. If you want to know what makes Jon tick
and to see him open his life to share then here's your opportunity. It feels
a bit like a tour through someone's desk and scrap books with a narrative explanation
from an old friend telling you about each photo and piece of music and how it
all fits together as a gestalt in his evolution and cosmology. There's a naked
intimacy that's quite personal and open about it. I've never seen a site like
this by an artist giving so much, so freely.

JonHassell.com
Atmospherics -- for some Eno related talk see the 1980-81 pages and
the Diorama link off those for more on Jon's take on his working and hanging
out with Eno in that era

Julian
Lewis surfs: EnoWebbers may like to know that the subscription service
eMusic is now carrying The Drop, Nerve Net & The Shutov
Assembly. That's in addition to Another Day On Earth, which you
passed along before. I'm still nothing to do with eMusic, apart from being a
subscriber. Their Nerve Net includes a 'Doo Gap' mix of Ali Click
& a 'Separate Time' edit of Fractal Zoom - could be wrong, but
I don't think either was on the original album. [EnoWeb Explains: No
indeed, they were on maxi-singles]. Roger Eno's Between Tides &
Djivan Gasparyan's Moon Shines At Night have also just appeared there.
Though not Brian's Neroli, for some reason.

Brian was
spotted backstage at WOMAD in Reading in July and appeared for a brief two minutes
on Andy Kershaw's radio programme from the event. Thanks to David Honigmann
and Iain Chambers.

Stephen
Leech writes: Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle was voted Coolest Album
of all time by GQ magazine and number two in the list of one hundred was Here
Come The Warm Jets. [EnoWeb adds: we think this was the August
issue].

Brian is
continuing his bid to take over BBC Radio with two appearances on Radio London.
On Saturday 16th July he played musical ping-pong with Charlie Gillett and on
Saturday 23rd July he'll be Gary Crowley's guest sometime between 18:00 and
20:00 BST (GMT+1).

Word magazine
(August issue) has an interview with Brian - when it disappears from the
newsstands you can purchase a downloadable version from the site via Word
Active; incidentally they appear to have sourced one of EnoWeb's scan-of-a-photocopy
pictures... (thanks to Rory Walsh)

UNCUT (August Issue)
"has a short one page interview in which we learn that Brian has seen
Dom Joly, Peter Mandelson and Jeremy Paxman naked - all at the same time
- and he once had sex for 30 hours" [these facts are probably not linked]
(thanks to Rory Walsh)

Issue 3
of Lid Magazine features interviews with legendary rock and roll photographers
Leee Black Childers, Stephanie Chernikowski and Jon Levicke along with amazing
photographs of some of the greatest icons in music including never before seen
vintage photos of David Bowie, Brian Eno, Alice Cooper, The Who, The Ramones,
Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Joni Mitchell. (Thanks to Dagon James and Richard
Joly)

Friday
8th July is apparently due to be Brian Eno Day on BBC radio. Not only is there
that Mixing It interview with him EnoWeb mentioned about a month ago,
but he is also due to be a panellist on Any Questions? earlier in the
evening (thanks to David Evans). Note that as a live programme, Any
Questions? can get pre-empted by news coverage. Both programmes should
be available to hear for a week after broadcast. Times are British Summer Time
(GMT+1). Listings magazine Radio Times makes Mixing It one
of its two radio choices of the day: Jane Anderson says -- "There really
can't be many artists who can get away with saying 'I began to think about the
shape of songs and whether they could come in other shapes and sizes' without
sounding pretentious. But, in this fabulously entertaining interview for the
experimental music series, Brian Eno mixes sentences like this with guffaws
of laughter at his abject failure to recognise a hit song, plus surprising insights
into his life - he has an a cappella group who sing once a week, just
for fun." According to the Mixing It playlist page, the programme
will close with the unreleased track "Warnography", an extract from
which was played on Front Row back in 1998.

The Mark
Radcliffe show with Brian will be available for streaming until the evening
of Thursday 30 June BST. In this bruising encounter, Brian almost forgets to
turn up, answers probing questions about his Romantic Novelist Name and reveals
his anarchist past. There's a pic of him too.

Mark
Radcliffe -- click on "Thu" on the Listen Again banner and
"Gallery" to see the pic (might have to scroll down & click
"next" a few times)

Daniel
Land e-mails: I don't know if this has been pointed out before, but on
the Manzanera/Roxy Music site there's a really old interview with Eno (from
the Roxy days) with some pics of interesting hair and make-up that I've not
seen before... EnoWeb adds: Seasoned Enologists will be familiar with
Brian's whinge about synthesizers/ computers only using a small part of your
body (one finger), and its recent generative mutation into the whinge that anybody
can make an ambient record by holding down a single key. But it still comes
as a shock to find he was making similar complaints about his first synth back
in 1972!

PN.Ance
points out that in addition to the Mark Radcliffe (23rd June) & Mixing
It (8th July) interviews coming up (see story a few paragraphs below),
on Tuesday 21 June Radio 3's Late Junction will include some songs
from Another Day On Earth. The fun begins at 10:15pm.

Yves
Deplasse airmails: On 9/9/02005 @ 15:00 and 20:00, Bang on a Can are to
present Music for Airports as a curtain-raiser to the KlaraFestival
2005 in the (glorious) Belgian national airport (Zaventem near Brussels). After
the live concert, the airport loudspeakers will continue to play the work throughout
the KlaraFestival fortnight. BoaC are due to play again later (sept. 16th and/or
17th : minimal weekend, w/ Gavin Bryars, installation by La Monte Young/Marian
zazeela, and so on. Most of this remains not confirmed as yet)

David Buckley says: Just wanted to let you know that I wrote
a short review of the new Eno (four stars) which was published in this month’s
Mojo.

Rupert
Loydell writes: Just got a review copy of Jonathan Lethem's The Disappointment
Artist [Faber, £8.99, published 7 July 2005]. It's a collection of
autobiographical essays, the last of which, 'The Beards [a coda]' starts with
a two pages subtitled 'The Heavenly Music Corporation', which discusses No
Pussyfooting and Taking Tiger Mountain. The same essay also covers
music by Bowie, Pink Floyd and Talking Heads, along with some art and books.

Filter
magazine offers US residents a chance to win Another Day On Earth and
other albums.

Dieter
e-mails: Wire Magazine is including a Fovea Hex track "Don't These
Windows Open" on the Wire Tapper 13 compilation CD, distributed with the
June issue of the magazine. Brian sings and plays fretless bass and it's a different
mix from the version on the forthcoming Fovea Hex EP Bloom.

Greg
Bastug says: Not sure why the Enoshop is listing the "This" download
as exclusive - the US iTunes music store also has it available for sale. [EnoWeb
responds: fair point. The link works for the UK store too. The album doesn't
seem to be posted on the UK iTunes shop at time of this news page update, but
probably only a matter of time. So now customers have a choice, iTunes format
from iTunes or MP3 from Enoshop.]

John
Diliberto writes: BRIAN ENO: A SONG EMERGES. Although Brian Eno is esteemed
as the Godfather of ambient music, he began by crafting witty, knotty and idiosyncratic
songs, first with Roxy Music and then on solo albums like HERE COME THE WARM
JETS and TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY. Those CDs have been recently re-issued,
but Eno also has a brand new recording of songs, his first in over 25 years.
It's called ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH (Rykodisc) and it's an excursion into profound
melancholy, tinged with Eno's whimsy. When we visited Eno in 2003, ADOE was
a work in progress. We talk to Eno about his return to singing as we know it.
That's on Echoes, Tuesday 06/14*, Saturday 06/18**, Sunday 06/19* [*
denotes Echoes’ principal weekday & Sunday feeds. ** denotes stations’
tape delay dates. *** Echoes on XM Satellite Radio Channel 133, Sunday 3-5 pm
ET. And you can subscribe to hear it online. And maybe they'll podcast it.]

The Enoshop
is selling "This", the downloadable single (and first track) for Another
Day On Earth, along with downloadable versions of the other Opal albums.
(Thanks to Recordstore's Christine Kellogg)

Karen
Mills e-mails: I run the Brian Eno fanlisting, which has been approved
by thefanlistings.org. This large group of enthusiasts seeks to list fans of
many topics, including musicians. I felt Eno should have a place within the
network, and created these pages.

Doug
Hilsinger says: This Weds, June 8th, SF's ENORCHESTRA plays the early twisted
pop music of Brian Eno for your listening party pleasure! Tell all your Eno-friends
in the San Francisco bay area to check it out... it's a blast to have a room
full of Eno fans. We go on last (11:30 / midnight), so there's even time to
go catch Robert Fripp opening at the Fillmore (9pm), then come on down to the
Eno party! Where: 12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission St, San Francisco (btw 21st &
22nd).

Kevin
Brown writes: Just been looking at the SpinCDs web site and they have
information on a series of Brian Eno/Cluster related collaborations to be reissued
by Water Records in 2005. Released August 23rd.

Michael
Staley points out that the web-site for Another Day On Earth is
now live. Listen to streams of some of the tracks, download an MP3 of Danny
Hillis quizzing Brian about the album, see Brian's holiday snaps from China,
and more... no mention of the premiere release in Russia on 6 June
though.

I saw Eno and Taha perform last night (25 May) and thought
you might be interested to hear an account of the gig.

They played in DK Gorbunova, a crumbling Stalinist Palace
of Culture which is a popular venue for black metal and industrial bands.
It's also located very close to Moscow's main pirate CD market. Did Eno realise
his just- about- complete works were available on two MP3 discs for about
£4.50 nearby?

The show started off with Eno producing weird stuttering
percussion noises by waving his hands in the air over a long box with lots
of wires coming out of it. He did this for a few minutes, then Rachid Taha
shambled on in gold pyjamas and shades. Eno introduced him in Russian; not
very hard- 'Eto Rachid Taha' and the band launched into their fusion of rai
and rock. Every now and then Eno would press a key and a strange noise would
emerge. Most of the time, however, he was just singing backing vocals, but
enjoying himself enormously as he was visibly 'getting down'.

Rachid Taha's producer and guitarist Steve Hillage was also
in the band, and periodically his guitar was fed into Eno’s bank of
keyboards for 'treatments', cue weird stuttering/squealing effects. The bass
and the cymbals also received this treatment and it was fascinating to watch
and listen, as suddenly the music transcended ‘Rai’ and became
something I’d literally never heard before.

Eno's other activities involved drying his baldness with
a towel (there was a heatwave in Moscow and no air conditioning in the ancient
venue) and crowd banter. Can't say too much for his Russian grammar, but at
least he tried. The only time I’ve seen a western rock act with better
Russian was a Duran Duran concert on TV, but Simon Le Bon cheated: he was
reading his words off a piece of paper.

Most of the crowd was in their 30s/40s, and had no idea who
Rachid Taha was. The promotion for the concert gave Eno equal billing, and
all the articles in the 'Time Out' style mags over here focussed on Eno. However
they still got into it. Taha pulled people up on stage to dance, so at one
time there was about 20 folk up there, slim girls, fat girls, nerdy geeks
and an enormous jumping bearded man that Taha really got into. He put his
arms around him and started jumping up and down himself. Eno was also getting
down relatively furiously at this point, albeit behind the keyboards and in
a dignified manner, pausing for frequent headtowelling.

All in all a good gig. It’s striking how fit and healthy
Eno is for a man of his age. Steve Hillage on the other hand, looked old and
faintly embarrassed to be on stage. But there y’go.

The BBC
is gearing up for the national celebrations to mark the release of Brian's new
album.

Mark
Radcliffe will have Brian as a guest on 23rd June (thanks to Ian
Olsen-Clark)

Mixing
It will have an interview with Brian sometime in June (not 3rd or 10th)
(thanks to Iain Chambers)UPDATE:
Iain says: Confirmed transmission for the Mixing It Eno interview is Friday
8 July, 2215-2400

Sergey
Chernov has an article on Brian's presentation of his new album to the press
in Russia (thanks to Nor S. Trboyevic on the Nerve Net list).

Christine
Kellogg writes: Recordstore has taken over the running of the Brian Eno
shop - it has a new URL although the enoshop.co.uk address will point there
soon. As well as the existing albums we are going to run a competition for people
who buy Another Day On Earth - one person will receive a box of Oblique
Strategies, signed by Brian Eno. We will also have a full set of downloads,
hopefully with new tracks added monthly.

Michael
Staley says: Have you seen this interview? Sergey Chernov talks to Brian
about performing with Rachid Taha, Brian's response to the UK election on the
previous day, working with Paul Simon and Robert Fripp, and more.

More NTDWE:
Anthony Kneeshaw writes: I am organizing a Guitar Craft UK NST Weekend
in Yorkshire on 2-3 July 2005. As you will probably know GC related events are
rare if nonexistent in the UK, so this is a rare event. [EnoWeb: are you saying,
in effect, that this is rare or something?] Add to this the fact that
the events will not take place in London but 200 miles away in the beautiful
historic Victorian Village of Saltaire in Yorkshire and it can be seen that
this event is unique!

James
Topham writes: From 17 May for a month Warchildmusic.com is making Moby's
"Up River" mix of "Fractal Zoom" available again as a download.
This mix was available on the US maxi-single back in the day but is difficult,
nay impossible, to find these days. We're releasing it because of the re-release
of Nerve Net and Brian's forthcoming new album. The download is 99p
with approx. 70p going to War Child.

Microbunny
e-mails: While watching the cleverly written American TV show called Gilmore
Girls (May 10th - Episode title Blame Booze and Melville), the Rory
character played by Alexis Bledel is working as an intern at a newspaper. She
tells her current boyfriend visiting that she has decided to personalize her
workspace and displays a small headshot of a man on her cubicle wall. The boyfriend
asks "An eccentric uncle ?" She replies ... "Brian Eno".
Moments later in the conversation the photo is shown closer up and yes...it
is our hero in a photo from 1997, from the Corbis photography library (Photo
0000326734-001). I guess someone over there is a fan ! I recently just attended
the Eno lecture at the AGO in Toronto. Ironically one of the things he mentioned
is how he hates television (specifically the television news media) and doesn't
even own one.

NTDWE:
You might be able to catch Echoes' feature on Jon Hassell as a free
podcast.

Michael
Engelbrecht from Deutschlandfunk was blessed with an early promo version
of Another Day on Earth and has kindly sent us the first review.
So what's the verdict?

"When you've waited so long for a pure (nearly pure) song album by one
of your favourite singers, you can easily end up disappointed. Not in this case.
Another Day On Earth doesn't have even a weak or average second. It
is full of wonder, mystery, melodies, textures (rich, surprising), it has great
lyrics (playful, profound, touching), a kind of non-linear plot and a thrilling
ending (with one of the most shocking final pieces in the history of rock music).

"There are nine songs and two pieces with spoken (female) voices. The
album has a perfect sequence; Brian's old song 'Under' (which is, by the way,
one of his greatest ever-recorded songs, and was a bit 'buried' in his vocal
box, and thus only known to the happy few) finds a perfect place near the end
of Another Day On Earth. Some of Brian's occupations with time (and
bells) have a subtle influence on this masterpiece as well. And if some people
are now thinking, this might be a bit too much praise - well, dear readers,
let me tell you, this was an exercise in understatement!"

Pavel
Borodin writes: Have you heard about forthcoming concerts of Eno with Rachid
Taha in St. Petersburg and Moscow on May 24 & 25?

Concerts
(in Russian, but a nice pic of Brian mincing with Rachid Taha)

The
Guardian visited the Liberal Democrats' election party and talked to Brian.

In our
now-traditional Nothing To Do With Eno slot, here's a feature on Harold Budd
ahead of his final concert in Brighton on 21 May.

Independent
(hurry, the Indie tends to charge for articles after about a week
or fortnight or something)

New Albion Records
has a downloadable track from She is a Phantom by Harold with Zeitgeist
(ending's a bit abrupt though)

David
Firmin writes: The track listing for Another Day On Earth has
been released:

1. This
2. And Then So Clear
3. A Long Way Down
4. Going Unconscious
5. Caught Between
6. Passing Over
7. How Many Worlds
8. Bottomliners
9. Just Another Day
10. Under
11. Bone Bomb

EnoWeb comments: Tracks from 2003 (And Then So Clear), 1999 (Bottom
Liners) and 1991 (Under, originally part of My Squelchy Life unless
it's another piece of the same name) -- almost a retrospective of old unreleased
work...

Gary
Scott says: More nothing to do with Eno -- Roger Eno has a new album out
on May 23, Live at Lincoln Cathedral. Daniel Lanois's album Acadie
(which did have some Eno involvement) is now available from his site, with a
new instrumental record, Belladonna, available soon on the Anti label.

Daniel
Land points out: Brian was on Radio Four's Today programme on
3rd May, as part of the daily 'Election Panel' with Frederick Forsyth and David
Hare. He spoke about his LibDemThisTime site and voting in Thursday's election.

Nothing
to do with Brian, but John Diliberto says: ECHOES FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS
for May 2005 -- Thursday 05/12*, Saturday 05/14**, Sunday 05/15*, XM Sunday
05/15***
JON HASSELL: IMPROVISATIONS IN INTUITION. Jon Hassell is a seminal figure in
contemporary music. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a musician in LaMonte
Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, he has roots in mid-20th century experimentalism
and minimalism. On his own, he's crafted a fourth world music that has embraced
rhythms from Africa to Bali, all sliced through with modern technology, dub
grooves, ambient atmospheres and his own vapor trail trumpet lines. He's been
an influence on Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Robert Rich and hundreds of other musicians.
In an LA studio where he's mixing his latest album, Jon Hassell talks about
his hallucinatory swirl of seductive rhythms and soul-searing trumpet called
MAARIFA STREET (Nyen).* denotes Echoes principal weekday & Sunday feeds,
** denotes stations’ tape delay dates, *** Echoes on XM Satellite Radio
Channel 133, Sunday 3-5 pm ET. (EnoWeb adds: and you can listen online
for a fee at the Echoes site, or maybe free if you find a public station broadcasting
it).

Tom
Lynton writes: I design a left-wing political magazine called Red Pepper.
We featured Eno's support for Reg Keys -- who's standing as a candidate in the
General Election against Tony Blair in Sedgefield -- in a brief news round-up
last issue, and this issue Eno has written an article for our Election 2005
feature.

Red Pepper
-- click on "A chance to make history in Sedgefield" for Brian's article

Tim
Webber e-mails: This may be old news to you but Read Yourself Raw has a
transcript of the Chain Reaction interview the comic writer Alan Moore
conducted with Brian Eno earlier this year. [EnoWeb adds: the series
is being repeated and the Moore/Eno programme is due for re-broadcast on May
24th at 23:00 BST]

Nothing
To Do With Brian, But... Part 1: Rothko (Roger Eno and Mark Beazley) are performing
a session of two tracks on Mixing It on BBC Radio 3 on Friday 29th
April at 22.15 BST. The broadcast will be available on the site for a week afterwards.
(Thanks to Rory Walsh & David Whittaker)

Finn
Brunton writes: Just wanted to pass on a tidbit related to Eno's forthcoming
album. On April 8th, I attended Stewart Brand's Long Now talk on "Cities
and Time" in San Francisco. It's great talk, full of interesting material
on urban design and culture; Brand concluded by a showing an image of the Earth
at night, steadily panning away, while an Eno song excerpt I've never heard
before played - given that the lyrics revolved around "another day on Earth,"
I presume it's from the forthcoming album. There's an mp3 of Brand's talk up
at the Long Now site; the sound quality is surprisingly good, considering that
it's going by way of a PowerBook built-in speaker, through a mic, and into a
23kbps mono mp3. If you want a summary of the talk itself, I've got a rough
transcript up on my blog.

Long Now Seminars
-- Stewart's April talk is at the base of the page; he plays the song at
about 52:55 (not sure this is the ideal way to hear the song's premiere
though!)

Meanwhile,
Jean-Paul Pilon has spotted a report on one of Brian's talks in Canada;
he's unwilling to talk about his new album until it's released (Just like Spock
refusing to discuss being dead with McCoy because they didn't have a shared
frame of reference. Uh, what are you looking at your browser like that for?)

It is a
well-known fact that Jungle is massive. But what about the Blackboard Jungle?
Is that massive too? A new exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science
in Oxford, Oxenfordshire, sets out to discover the truth. When Einstein lectured
in Oxford in 1931, a blackboard he used was preserved and is still kept in the
Museum. "The exhibition marks the centenary of the Special Theory of Relativity
by inviting a number of well-known people in Britain today to chalk on blackboards
the same size as Einstein’s. All these guest blackboards have been prepared
in the early months of 2005. The result is an exhibition about science, art,
celebrity and nostalgia."

Michael
Staley e-mails: From Damien Dempsey's website -- "Damien's next single
will be 'Patience' and will contain 4 versions of the track: radio version,
a mix by the legendary Brian Eno, The Desert Mix and the album version. The
single is released on May 13th."

Election
Diary in The Independent on 16th April reported "Irony of the
Day: Every time Tony Blair plays his election theme, U2's 'Beautiful Day', he
is giving support (and probably royalities as well) to the Roxy Music star Brian
Eno, who produced the song. The same Brian Eno is the main financial backer
of Reg Keys, the anti-war candidate who is standing against Mr Blair in his
Sedgefield constituency." Regarding financial backing, The Guardian
previously reported that wasn't so. And of course Brian is active in other ways
too...

Brian has
set up a site encouraging UK voters to choose the Liberal Democrats in the forthcoming
election.

The Jane Does who
provided the song "Quiet Inside" used throughout the film (free
download)

PE.com
reports that Brian was among around 20 artists who "filed a legal brief
with the high court in support of Grokster and StreamCast" because they
reckon sharing files "has the immediate potential to develop into a significantly
more prevalent alternative distribution and promotion system." Hmm, Brian
on the same bill as Chuck D and Heart...

There are
changes afoot at the sites of All Saints Records, which now has sales handled
by Farfield Records' Sharpsonic site, and Enoshop, which warns of possible delays
while it relocates.

Michael
Staley points us to the news on the Metisse Music page, which says Brian's
vocal album is due for UK release on June 13th 2005 on the Hannibal Records/Ryko
label. The title is now Another Day on Earth. Or according to another
site, Another Day on Planet Earth. A Google search turns up a Brad
Laner who lists Another Day on Earth as an album he played on, so that's
looking the most likely title at the moment.UPDATE: Sometime towards the end of April an EnoWebber
tried visiting the Metisse Music site and found that the reference to the album
had disappeared; Showcd's label reference has changed to Hannibal/All Saints.
Mysterious.

Michael
continues: By the way, I got Bronagh Gallagher's album. Just to clarify,
Eno does Male Backing Vocals and Vibe Organ on the song 'He Don't Love You'
and composed the strings (played by Nell Catchpole, of course) on the song 'Hooks'.
The album is actually very good - simple and quite lovely soul songs. Eno does
a lot of lovely 'ooohing' and 'aaahing' (mainly ooohing) on that one song and
the string part on the other is very nice indeed.

Thinking
of buying More Music For Films? EnoWeb advises caution. Two people
have e-mailed us to say that on their CDs, track 18 -- which should be "Climate
Study" -- is in fact "Approaching Taidu"; track 20 is again "Approaching
Taidu": you get two of those rather than any "Climate Study"s.
This is the case on EnoWeb's copy too. It might be worth delaying your purchase
until we have some information on how widespread this situation is (probably
after Easter), so you don't have to put up with the kind of problems that beset
purchasers of the defective Another Green World last year. Meantime,
check out Astralwerks' site, which has Paul Morley's new essay on these 4 reissues.

UPDATE 1: EnoWeb has now received several more
e-mails from people in the UK and the US who have bought the album. All
the CDs exhibit the problem, and it was apparently present on the promo version
as well... odd that Virgin/EMI didn't pick it up at that stage. Perhaps they
were too busy trying to understand the essay notes: "the cumulative resonance
of More Music For Films is effortlessly secure within its timeless
contemporaneity." Indeed. If you haven't bought it, do yourself a favour
and don't.

UPDATE 2: Okay, we now have information for the
UK and US.

UK: Virgin say they have recalled all More Music For Films
stock; new stock should be available in two weeks or so. Returns will be honoured
and replaced.

US: This information from Ashley at Astralwerks --

'A new master is being prepared and corrected stocks of More Music For
Films should be in US shops hopefully by the third week of April.

We are making three options available to US consumers.
1.) You may return your copy immediately to the store where you purchased it
for a refund and then wait until the third week of April to repurchase More
Music For Films by which time new stocks should be in stores.
2.) You can hold onto your copy until the third week of April and then check
with your retailer to see if they are participating in a replacement disc program.
We will be making replacement discs available to retailers whereby your defective
disc can be exchanged for a corrected disc.
3.) If your retailer is not participating in this replacement plan, or if for
any other reason you are unable to use these first two options, you may e-mail
astralwerks (making "More Music For Films" the subject line of
your e-mail) to receive instructions regarding getting a replacement disc.

We regret that this error has occurred and in the interest of Brian Eno's fans
we want to correct this situation as quickly as possible.'

Meanwhile, over on Planet Nervenet (just north of Skaro),
some Eno fans have been expressing concern that even the names of some of the
tracks may be incorrect.

Nervenet
track listing for current MMFF (Puzzled? You should
stay in more. "Fuseli" was an alternate title for the Music
For Films track "A Measured Room"; the CD compiler has used
"Patrolling Wire Borders" instead.)

The
Times Higher Education Supplement carries a report on a recent lecture
by Brian; he was the second speaker on the bill after Professor Roger Wilson,
with Andrew Graham-Dixon as Chairman. Better still, the RSA Univerity of the
Arts (RSA = Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures &
Commerce), whose lecture this was, has posted a transcript (PDF format -- you
can get Adobe Reader free here).
In Andrew's opening comments we learn that Brian's "been working on a new
album, tersely entitled This." Long-term Eno watchers may recall
that one of Brian's many, many prospective titles for The Drop was
This is Hup!, so he's either shortening old ideas or been following
the Peter Gabriel Correspondence Course for One-Word Album Titles.

Contrary
to reports in The Times and on contactmusic.com on 21 March, Brian
has not re-joined Roxy Music and isn't in
the studio with them/appearing at the Isle of Wight Festival.

The
Times reports that Brian is to finance the campaign of Reg Keys who will
be standing for election in Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency. Reg Keys'
son Tom, a Royal Military Policeman, was killed by a mob in Iraq in 2003. But
The Guardian reports that Brian is not financing the campaign.

Dr
Peter Smith writes with information on Brian's other lecture date in Canada
-- it's on 19th April at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31
Caroline St. N., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5. Tickets still available at time
of posting...

We don't
normally point out bargains at online stores, but for UK customers play.com
is currently offering the terrific Harold Budd & John Foxx double album
Translucence/Drift Music for £6.99. They have More Music
for Films for pre-order at £10.99 too. Both prices include postage.
On the other hand if you're ordering 2 or more of the next batch of remasters
then Amazon.co.uk's a better bet as it has them at £9.99 and that'll get
you free slow delivery too.

During
April Brian is lecturing in Canada (two dates including one at Anne Tanenbaum
Gallery School, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 21st April) and LA (one date,
Skirball Cultural Center, 25th April, with Danny Hillis). All places are sold
out but we'll give you links anyway.

Bruce
Carleton writes: Hello, I'm the guy that drew the comic Eno in Mad
City [EnoWeb adds: currently in EnoWeb's gallery but we'll be
replacing it with a link to Bruce's site]. You might want to note that this
piece originally appeared in EG Newsletter #4. By the way, as noted
in the comic, the rap spoken by Eno at the end was actually written by him.
Also in that section, the interview from Punk Magazine that you have
under "1976" actually appeared in 1977... summer, I think. The illustration
for that interview is also on my Website.

Meanwhile,
Tokion magazine has published the text of Brian's chat at the Creativity
Now Conference 2004, cleverly re-branding it Creativity Now 2005. You can see
an extract at the Tokion site in special Difficult-To-Read™ Flash-O-Vision®
and they have an efficient mail order department. EnoWeb felt a bit jaded
reading it as we knew all the answers. Obviously time to get out more. (Thanks
toAdam Leier, Richard Joly & Joe Moreau).

Tokion
(click on Articles at the top of the page; Brian is cut off on this one
too)

David
Firmin tunes in to Critic Milo Miles' review of the first 8 Original Masters.

The
Jacket is gaining some reviews (containing spoilers). There are currently
no plans for a soundtrack release although Roger Eno's track "Fleeting
Smile" from Music for Films III appears at the start of the film.
(Thanks to Richard Joly).

When he's
not talking about having completed his album, Brian amuses himself by once again
fomenting dissent against ye Prime Ministere, who was, ifaith, appointed by
Heaven Itselfe (Thanks to David Whittaker, Richard Joly and Steve Duffy).

Michael
Staley e-mails: More Eno-related news from Ireland! Eno contributes to
two new albums by Irish acts. The first is Precious Soul by Bronagh
Gallagher (she was in The Commitments and The Phantom Menace,
don't ya know). Various Internet reports indicate that Eno produced the album
- he did not - John Reynolds did although I think Eno offered a lot of advice,
suggestions, arrangement ideas etc. (He just can't help himself). I haven't
heard it yet but a very quick glance over the sleevenotes indicates that Brian
contributed a string arrangement to one song and backing vocals and maybe bass
to another. There may be more contributions from Eno but the guy in the record
shop didn't seem to appreciate me 'fingering' the booklet so I'm not sure. Oh,
I think this record may only be available in Ireland. It's been in the shops
for a month or two (I think). The other record is Shots by Damien Dempsey.
Ol' Bri contributed to his last album (as you know) and is listed on Damien's
website as being on the new one. Not sure what he does on it (it was released
today, March 14th). [EnoWeb adds: contributes to the track "Sing All Our
Cares Away" apparently]. Both these albums were produced by Sinead O'Connor's
former squeeze, John Reynolds. Dieter adds: Eno's involvement in 'seize
the day' is celtic tiger + 'shots' is cursed with a brain - information from
john reynolds.

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Brian appeared
on BBC Radio 4's programme Chain Reaction on Thursday 3rd February
at 18.30 GMT. Recorded in December last year, the entertaining interview covered
many topics and Brian told interviewer Alan Moore (who is not to be confused
with comic-book writing lion Aslan Moore): "I've actually just finished
a new album which is all songs, funnily enough -- first one I've done like that
for a very long time, twenty-five years or so." Let's hope it won't take
just as long to release it. The programme will be available on the Radio 4 site
for a week afterwards. Thanks to Stuart Corrin and Mark Harrop.

Sebastian
Böcking writes: Genesis is planning to release a completely remastered
5.1-Multi-Channel version of their famous album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway,
on which Brian Eno did "Enossification", whatever it is. Every member
of former Genesis was more or less involved in the remixing process. It will
be released on SACD in April 2005.

Fear
X, the film scored by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm, finally gets released
in the USA on 28th January, in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Spoiler
Alert: the links below reveal plot and structure points (as does EnoWeb's own
write-up).

Empire
has a trailer for The Jacket and reckons it'll be released in the UK
on 3rd November. The trailer music doesn't sound particularly Enoesque, but
the credits do say "Original Music by Brian Eno" so maybe EnoWeb is
just being picky.

A visitor
to EnoWeb writes regarding our description of the All Saints re-releases as
'remastered': "The artwork is reworked, for sure, but the 'remastered'
Shutov Assembly sounded no different to my ears, so I extracted 'Lanzarote'
from the new and the original releases using EAC. Carefully trimmed excess material
(the actual start and end times were marginally different) and compared the
resulting two 92Mb files in binary mode. They are exactly the same.
There's definitely no remastering in this recording, it's IDENTICAL to the original
release. I have also compared the original and new CD releases of Neroli
and can confirm that, aside from trailing silences, the material content is
bit-for-bit identical. I thought I smelled a rat when there were no remastering
credits on the liner notes. EnoWeb replies: Apologies if we have inadvertently
misled anyone -- we always post information in good faith, though we were a
bit puzzled by the way the remastering engineer had not sorted out the sound
glitch at the start of the first track of The Shutov Assembly. If this
is so perhaps All Saints Records will be able to get a refund from the remasterers.
Until this issue is sorted out, our best advice will have to be: only buy these
re-releases if you want the new artwork or you don't already own them on CD.
Incidentally All Saints has a carefully-hidden news page where back on 10th
September 2004 they were asking for people's views on the audio quality.

Gary
Scott writes: I've come across the following info on the next set of re-issues.
EnoWeb adds: this batch appears to be being marketed as 'Soundtrack
Works', and contrary to our unwarranted speculation last year, More Music
For Films is called just that and consists of the otherwise unreleased
tracks from the Music For Films Directors' Edition and Music For
Films Volume 2 (first time on CD for both). Release date is now 21st March.
By the way, Keith Cahoonpoints out that HMV Japan's site
says that their stocks will be imported from the UK, so their availability may
be delayed from the previously reported date. Mark Finney says: I am
pleased that this material is getting a new release, however EnoWeb's term "first
time on CD" does not apply to nearly half the tracks here. The songs: 2.
Untitled 4. Chemin De Fer 11. Empty Landscape 12. Reactor 13. The Secret 14.
Don’t Look Back 15. Marseilles were all released on CD as part of the
Eno Box I (Instrumentals) back in 1993. These were all tracks originally
released on Music for Films (The Director’s Edition). [So that's
us told.]

Chris
Millar e-mailed: thought you would be interested in this story... NPR:
Brian Eno Albums Remastered for Compact Disc -- Mikel Jollett reviews Brian's
first four re-issues. A straightforward review of the newly reissued first four
albums; but on NPR's afternoon news program All Things Considered.
Actually a very big deal as far as I am concerned.

Howard
Shih conducts: Apologies if you've already covered this but I didn't see
any links to it on your links page and didn't find any reference to the 30th
Anniversary of the Portsmouth Sinfonia's Royal Albert Hall concert...

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